Does Anyone Use Mora Style Knives For Hunting, Camping Or Skinning?

[Browning]

Anybody use these for hunting, camp chores or skinning?


I saw them in some hunting catalog and then I saw one at a gun show so I bought one. It's one of the best knives that I've ever had and they're really inexpensive too ($10 to $99 with most of them having a median price around $20 or less).


This the one that I bought.

I've been looking at some of the wood handled ones that look antiqued.


And for the survivalists.

Here's some places that make them.

http://www.swedishknives.com/

http://www.ragweedforge.com/SwedishKnifeCatalog.html

http://www.buckshotscamp.com/Mora-Knives-Sales.htm

Information on them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_knife

Reviews on the Mora knife.

http://thegearjunkie.com/gear-review-mora-knives

http://www.cutleryscience.com/reviews/knives_for_a_buck.html

 

[xd45gaper]

no but i have herd they are really really good camp/hunting knives.

 

[Skoghund]

I have sent a lot of the green handle knives to a mate in England. He thinks they are a great hunting knife. The cheap blue ones are work knives like we use at work. they are so cheap they are almost dispossable but still good knife.

 

[Kingcreek]

My hunting pack ALWAYS includes an Eriksson mora, similar to your Frost. I often use it for field dressing deer and a few times antelope. The Erikssons used to be carbon steel and the Frosts were mostly stainless but I'm not sure that is still the case. I keep several of them around. I keep one in the boat and tackle bag also. I have been known to "gift" them to young campers or hunters.

I have also used my Roselli Puuko-style "carpenters" knife for alot of game and camp uses.

Here are my 2 favorite scandis. The Roselli and a Kaj Vikstrom cleaver.

 

[Browning]

Kingcreek : My hunting pack ALWAYS includes an Eriksson mora, similar to your Frost. I often use it for field dressing deer and a few times antelope. The Erikssons used to be carbon steel and the Frosts were mostly stainless but I'm not sure that is still the case. I keep several of them around. I keep one in the boat and tackle bag also. I have been known to "gift" them to young campers or hunters.

I have also used my Roselli Puuko-style "carpenters" knife for alot of game and camp uses.

Here are my 2 favorite scandis. The Roselli and a Kaj Vikstrom cleaver.

Nice!!

I really like the Roselli, how much did that one set you back?

It looks like it would make a great knife for skinning or work that required a really fine cut.

 

[MCgunner]

Looks like a cheap fiskars I had once that was an amazingly good knife for under ten bucks. It got stolen, though, along with a .45ACP 1911 that was on the belt. Wasn't real worried about the knife at the time.

 

[Kingcreek]

Browning, IIRC it was under $60.
I bought it from (and highly recommend!) Ragnar at ragwwedforge.com
The Roselli is a great knife, light and comfortable in the hand, excellent edge, but it is not my primary skinning knife. There are other Rosellis that would make better skinners. For skinning chores I usually use my custom MadPoet camp set- large skinner and small caping knife- made by the late Mel Sorg Jr.

 

[tspoon]

Mora knife

Hello
I don't do any hunting. Do a lot of salt water fishishing in the Gulf Of Mexico at Sabine Pass, Texas. Been using one of the Moras for 2 or 3 years. They are very good knives for fishing and boating. They are easy to carry, don't rust and are easy to sharpen. Of coarse we have bigger knives, but the Mora is our choice for a general purpose knife.

 

[MCgunner]

Dayum, I've been known to butcher a whole deer with just a wyoming saw and a Gerber folder. I didn't know you needed specialized knives for specialized jobs. Hmmm. But, then, my skinner is generally a mesquite limb rolled up in the hide so I can strip it off. I've used the rock, rope, and Toyota 4x4 bumper technique, too.

 

[Browning]

Kingcreek : Browning, IIRC it was under $60.
I bought it from (and highly recommend!) Ragnar at ragwwedforge.com
The Roselli is a great knife, light and comfortable in the hand, excellent edge, but it is not my primary skinning knife. There are other Rosellis that would make better skinners. For skinning chores I usually use my custom MadPoet camp set- large skinner and small caping knife- made by the late Mel Sorg Jr.

That's not bad. I found them in a later search, good looking selection of knives on the Roselli website.

I also found these, it's called a Puukko knife and it came up in my search for the Mora.

Puukko Knives.
http://www.kellamknives.com/

Puukko Knives From Finland.
http://www.cloudberrymarket.com/servlet/the-KNIVES-FINNISH--fdsh--PUUKOT/Categories

Kainuun Puukko Knives.
http://www.kainuunpuukko.com/english/kpline.htm

Brisa Knives.
https://www.brisa.fi/portal/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

tspoon : I don't do any hunting. Do a lot of salt water fishishing in the Gulf Of Mexico at Sabine Pass, Texas. Been using one of the Moras for 2 or 3 years. They are very good knives for fishing and boating. They are easy to carry, don't rust and are easy to sharpen. Of coarse we have bigger knives, but the Mora is our choice for a general purpose knife.

I almost included fishing in the title for those who fish alot, but I don't really fish all that much myself.

It looked like it would make a good filet knife just cause of the medium length thin blade though.

 

[enkindler]

the Puukko knifes are great for cleaning fish and skinning game, I have used one for years but I am a Finn. The blade curve on the Mora knives you posted looks a little short, they look like great knives but I prefer more of a curve otherwise skinning becomes a real chore, at least the way I learned to do it.

 

[Browning]

When I was thinking about the skinning portion of it I was thinking more about the set of knives in the picture in the middle on my initial post and the knife that's just above the Strata Rest Logo. That's actually the one I had in mind anyway.

The blue handled one that I have would work I guess though.

 

[Browning]

Well I'm gonna get this Puukko as well.

http://www.cloudberrymarket.com/servlet/the-415/leijonapuukko%2C-lion-knife%2C-finnish/Detail

I fell in love at first sight and I just have to get it.

 

[WhiteKnight]

I have a red-handled one and love it. However, I think the blade design is a little too pointy for skinning work (wouldn't want to puncture an organ). I'd prefer something with a little more sweep towards the tip for game.

 

[DWARREN123]

I got a couple of plastic handle ones from Sportsman Guide for less than $10 a piece. Very good general purpose knives.

 

[Skoghund]

Have a look at EKA hunting knives. www.eka-knivar.se
Don't know if they sell them in the USA. They are very nice Swedish knives.

 

[rcmodel]

My first good knife was a Mora.

I almost cut all my fingers off with it skinning a rabbit in below zero weather. It slipped through my cold numb fingers and sliced me wide & deep!

I kind of like at least a little guard, or at least a handle that doesn't taper into the razer-edge blade after that.


rcmodel

 

[Browning]

Skoghund : Have a look at EKA hunting knives. www.eka-knivar.se
Don't know if they sell them in the USA. They are very nice Swedish knives.

Nice, I especially like this one.

 

[Skoghund]

I like the shorter bladed EKA. But i have enough knives to last 3 hunting lives.
Still get a bit moist looking at the Eka knives though.
The one pictured in Brownings reply costs about 850Sek = 121USD.
They do some of the knives with birch handles as well.

 

[Browning]

$121 isn't bad, most knives like that over here would cost alot more.

 

[hopkin]

I love the scandinavian knife styles. The Frosts Clipper - the blue-handled one up top - is one of my favourite knives and I've had about 10 of them in various styles (stainless, high carbon, swedish military, scout). In my opinion it's the best entry-level hunting/camping/bushcraft knife around.

My favourite knife ever is the Fallkniven F1. It's not as 'scandinavian looking' as some of the others but is still obviously based on the older designs from that region. Much better for general bushcraft than the huge paramilitary knives some people prefer.

By the way, Mora is a place in Sweden, the city renowned for steel production. It can be confusing as the Mora knife is made by KJ Erikson, not Frosts of Mora.

 

[Kingcreek]

I was under the impression that Eriksson and Frost is now combined and is same company.
I believe the current popularity of BIG paramilitary/camp/bowie style knives is driven largely by people who spend very little time using them in practical day-to-day ways. Most applications in bushcraft, hunting, or common utility really favor a smaller blade IMO. A good quality, sharp 3" blade with a comfortable handle will accomplish more work with less effort in most of my cutting chores. They make axes, prybars, saws, hammers, and power tools for everything else.

 

[Vic303]

I've wanted to get one for a long time, and I probably just ought to do it--after all they're NOT expensive! I just keep drooling over the expensive, tacticool ones instead, where the price keeps me from buying it.

 

[hopkin]

I was under the impression that Eriksson and Frost is now combined and is same company.

Oh? I didn't know that. thanks for mentioning it.

I agree 100% with what you say about small knives being better for most bushcraft type stuff. I get frustrated when friends seem set on buying a large, thick and heavy knife for camping because they believe it will be better in some un-specified emergency. It's inferior for 99.09% of the tasks they actually undertake and of dubious value for that other theoretical 0.01%. Cutting their way out of car wrecks is something I hear mentioned regularly.

 

[rcmodel]

A Belt Ax or crow-bar will work much better for that!

Any emergancy will be better served with the same size knife that works best for non-emergancy use. A 4" - 5" blade, certainly never more then something like a K-Bars 6 3/4", (and it's also a fighting knife of sorts), comfortable handle, etc.

If the emergancy involves "Fight'n a Bar", a powerful handgun or shotgun would be a better use of the weight.


rcmodel